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Major broadband expansion in East Missouri
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Gov. Jay Nixon was on hand in Farmington, Mo. on Monday to celebrate the opening of Big River Telephone’s new broadband headquarters. The company says their new facilities will allow them to provided high-speed internet access to nearly 45,000 homes and more than 7,500 businesses in a seven county area. The [...]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – As Missouri continues to rely more and more on federal funding to help make ends meet, the state auditor has found 26 instances of federal dollars being mismanaged by state government. On Monday, Auditor Tom Schweich, released the findings of his department’s annual Statewide Single Audit – the culmination of 25,000 [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Canadian oil pipeline company is coming to Missouri, but it’s not the much-discussed Keystone XL project. Monday night, Enbridge, Inc. of Calgary, Canada announced it was partnering with Houston, Tx. based Enterprise Products LP to lay a pipeline to carry oil across Missouri, in a path running roughly diagonally from [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Gov. Jay Nixon’s administration continues to publish bullish economic figures heading into the campaign season. But the state’s budget chief says Friday’s report of a jump in state revenues is no reason to celebrate just yet. Friday, the state’s Budget and Planning Office published figures showing general state revenue collections in [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Gov. Jay Nixon is releasing some state funds to help with public school transportation programs and some higher education budget relief. The governor announced that he is releasing $3 million from the amount he withheld last summer from elementary and secondary education funds. The money will go to transportation needs brought [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri’s unemployment rate in January was the lowest it’s been since shortly after the 2008 stock market crash. According to the Missouri Department of Economic Development, last month’s unemployment dropped to a rate of 7.2 percent. That’s down from 8 percent the previous month as a result of 21,000 new jobs [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — State Auditor Tom Schwiech has concerns with how Missouri Employers’ Mutual spends its income, but says there’s very little the state can do about it. The Columbia-based workers’ compensation insurance firm was set up by the General Assembly with a $5 million loan in 1993. The governor must appoint three members [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The State Treasurer’s office has received top marks from its annual review by the State Auditor. On Friday, the office of Treasurer Clint Zweifel received the highest possible performance rating for a state agency: excellent. A report from State Auditor Tom Schweich found that the assets of the Treasurer’s Office exceed [...]
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JEFFESON CITY, Mo. – A circuit court judge has tossed out one of the few legislative accomplishments pulled out of last fall’s derailed special session. On Monday night, Cole County Judge Dan Green overturned the Missouri Science and Innovation Reinvestment ACT, MOSIRA, due to constitutional issues concerning the way it was passed in September. Green’s [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Supporters in favor of abolishing Missouri’s individual income tax in favor of an enhanced sales tax say they are committed to getting the issue on November’s ballot. Supporters of the so-called “Fair Tax” initiative argue a radical change is necessary to the state’s tax code in order to grow Missouri’s economy. [...]
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